World History Quiz 10 (60 MCQs)

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1. A primary source is a record of the past created by
2. The word "Mesopotamia" means
3. Before the ..... Revolution, people were .....
4. Prussia's final war for German unification was fought against this country in 1870.
5. What force generated by a person's actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life known as?
6. Why would a writer from the Abbasid Empire comment on features of Indian culture and technology?
7. What country is not part of North America?
8. How did Egyptians get water to their crops?
9. Philosophy that emphasized filial piety and leading a good life .....
10. Highland, marine, semiarid, and desert are different types of .....
11. Which of the following is NOT a role played by Medieval monasteries during the Middle Ages?
12. What important discovery separates the Paleolithic and Mesolithic eras of the Stone Age?
13. The Chinese invented all of the following except:
14. A king or queen who is a supreme ruler is called a .....
15. Which empire conquered most of Asia
16. How did Mesopotamians make money?
17. Tactic used by the Russians to defeat France when Napoleon invaded:
18. A system of government in which political power resides with the people.
19. The number of people in a given land area
20. A rapid spread of a disease over a wide area is called a/an .....
21. If a person lived in a Maroon community there were?
22. Two broad themes of history are continuity and change. Continuity refers to the ways that
23. The Fertile Crescent was
24. Which one of these is NOT a reason China was isolated?
25. The radicals who took over the revolution were led by
26. The Neolithic Revolution was the shift from hunting and gathering to ..... in various parts of the world.
27. Along what RIVER did the Harappan Civilization develop?
28. What is the meaning of the term agriculture?
29. People with no permanent home are called
30. Imperial bureaucracyRoad systemTolerance of conquered peopleZoroastrianismThe characteristics listed apply to which society?
31. They named one of these ancient cities Harappa. What did they name the other city?
32. According to John Green, what is an upside of diseases?
33. Which of the following was NOT a cause for the French Revolution?
34. What does AD stand for?
35. "It was in Italy that ..... awakened a perception and treatment of all things of this world in general; but by its side ..... there also arose the subjective; man becomes a self-aware individual and recognizes himself as such." -John Burkhardt, The Civilization in Renaissance Italy, 1860 The passage above reflects the Renaissance ideal of-
36. The center of the Zapotec civilization
37. Once people learned how to raise plants and animals they no longer had to:
38. The term democracy means "rule by ..... "
39. Which empire used iron weapons, horses soldiers, battering rams, and movable towers?
40. The longest river in the world, the annual flooding of which left a rich deposit of mud that enriched the soil and allowed Egyptian farmers to grow a surplus of food
41. The idea that "reason" could be used to solve all human problems came to be called the time of .....
42. ..... are drawings made on a flat surface that depict the entire Earth, or some of its parts.
43. Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?
44. What instrument revolutionized sailing?
45. Event where knights would ride towards each other with blunted lances (long poles) in attempt to knock each other off of their horse
46. Between 1450 and 1750, empires such as the Ottoman and Chinese shared which of the following?
47. What is the name of the seasonal winds that cause wet and dry seasons in India?
48. The self-sufficient economic system of the Middle Ages was called
49. The race for European countries to claim land in Africa was called the .....
50. Is all of the people who inhabit (live in) a certain region.
51. Why was the Printing press so important during the Renaissance?
52. Which society was the first to practice direct democracy?
53. What does absolute monarch mean?
54. As a result of the Qing Dynasty's military weakness, European countries were enjoying their own special privileges in China. These areas where they enjoyed special privileges and trading rights were known as .
55. The Magna Carta helped introduce democratic ideas to England. The first democracy in the ancient world arose in
56. Why was voting in the Estates General unfair
57. What was the practice of charging interest on a loan that was forbidden by the Catholic Church?
58. Which society lived in small groups constantly moving to find food, water, and shelter?
59. Because of this, scientists can only draw conclusions about the past.
60. The Shang were the first people in China to